Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a 1985 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks describing the case histories of some of his patients. The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat became the basis of an opera of the same …

Amazon Best of the Month, December 2007: Legendary R&B icon Ray Charles claimed that he was "born with music inside me," and neurologist Oliver Sacks believes Ray may have been right. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain examines the extreme effects of music on the human brain and how lives can be utterly …

Nöroloji uzmanı Oliver Sacks, Mars'ta Bir Antropolog ya da özgün adıyla An Anthropologist on Mars kitabında, Tourette sendromundan kaynaklanmış “tik”leriyle boğuşan bir cerrah; bir kaza sonucu renkkörü olup siyah-beyaz resimlerin tonlarında yaşayan bir ressam gibi, bir kaza ya da bir hastalık sonucu beyinlerinde …

Tungsten Dayı: Kimyasal Bir Çocukluğun Anıları ya da özgün adıyla Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Oliver Sacks'ın 2002 yılında yayınlanan, çocukluğuna dair bir anı kitabıdır. Kitap ismini Sacks'ın tungsten telinden ampul üreten dayısı Dave'in takma adı Tungsten Dayı'dan almaktadır. Tungsten Dayı bu …

Uyanislar, 1920'lerde dunyanin cesitli yerlerinde gorulen "uyku hastaligi" salgininin kurbani yirmi hastanin ve kirk yil sonra, Doktor Sacks'in gozetiminde aldiklari "mucize ilac" L-DOPA sayesinde inanilmaz bir sekilde "uyanmalarinin" hikayesi. Etkileyici, cesaret dolu, hatta trajik uyanislar bunlar. 1973'te …

Profesör Oliver Sacks, Renkkörleri Adası ya da özgün adıyla The Island of the Colorblind kitabında, okurunu dünyanın bir ucuna, Mikronezya bölgesine götürür. Yazar bu adalardaki sıradışı yöresel hastalıkları -Pingelap ve Pohnpei'de kalıtımsal renkkörlüğünü; Guam ve Rota'da ilerleyen, ölümcül bir nörodejeneratif …

Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter …

Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority …

‘Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent’ Observer How does the brain perceive and interpret information from the eye? And what happens when the process is disrupted? In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to …

The many manifestations of migraine can vary dramatically from one patient to another, even within the same patient at different times. Among the most compelling and perplexing of these symptoms are the strange visual hallucinations and distortions of space, time, and body image which migraineurs sometimes experience. …